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Soil Carbon and the Carbon Cycle in the Central Amazon Forest

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Amazonia is the highest biological diversity forest in the world, with also an intense energy and carbon cycle exchange among the global ecosystems. The works bring what is more relevant to carbon balance studies in the Amazon. Presenting about organic and inorganic carbon, including soil, atmosphere, plant, decomposition, deforestation, fire, logging and river carbon emission/sink, the quantification of carbon balance in one ecosystem is still very difficult, especially in the Amazon region. And the uncertainties of the total carbon stock estimates will eventually be reduced when field inventories and the geographical distance in the Amazon region match and increase the reliability of measurements to allow a better understanding of all possible factors driven the local carbon stock. We hope that this work gives us the most recent information about central Amazon carbon cycle and also Amazon soil emission.

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  1. Centro de Formação em Ciências Ambientais-CFCAm, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia-UFSB, Porto Seguro, BA, Brazil

    Fabrício Berton Zanchi PhD.

  2. Doutor pela Vrije Universiteit van, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Fabrício Berton Zanchi PhD.

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Zanchi, F.B. (2018). Soil Carbon and the Carbon Cycle in the Central Amazon Forest. In: Myster, R. (eds) Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90122-0_4

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